The University of Queensland (UQ)

Australia

For more than a century, The University of Queensland (UQ)’s exceptional study experiences, research excellence and collaborative partnerships have delivered knowledge leadership for a better world.

Across UQ’s three campuses, our 7,200 staff and 54,925 students – including almost 20,000 postgraduates and approximately 20,000 international students from 142 countries – teach, research and study.

With a strong focus on teaching excellence, UQ is Australia’s most awarded university for teaching* and attracts the majority of Queensland’s high achievers, as well as top interstate and overseas students.

UQ’s 280,000 graduates are an engaged network of global alumni who span more than 170 countries and include more than 15,400 PhDs.

UQ consistently ranks among the world’s top universities as measured by several key independent rankings, including the CWTS Leiden Ranking (31)**, Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (39), U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings (42), QS World University Rankings (46), Academic Ranking of World Universities (54), and Times Higher Education World University Rankings (62).

With a 2019 operating revenue of AU$2.19 billion, including more than $452 million in research investment, UQ’s six faculties and eight globally recognised research institutes cover a remarkable breadth of teaching and research.

In recognition of our research quality, UQ was acknowledged in the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia initiative for above-world-standard research in 93 specialised fields – more than any other Australian university.

Through UniQuest, UQ’s technology transfer and commercialisation company, UQ is also Australia’s leading university for commercialisation revenue, number of active startup companies and value of equity held in startup companies formed from university intellectual property.

UQ is one of only three Australian members of the global Universitas 21, and one of only three Australian charter members of the prestigious edX consortium: the world’s leading not-for-profit consortium of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

* UQ has won more national teaching awards than any other Australian university.
** This ranking is measured by the Impact indicator P, P (top 10 per cent), and PP (top 10 per cent) with fractional counting.

1 November 2019 - 31 October 2020

Region: Global
Subject/journal group: All

The table to the right includes counts of all research outputs for The University of Queensland (UQ) published between 1 November 2019 - 31 October 2020 which are tracked by the Nature Index.

Hover over the donut graph to view the FC output for each subject. Below, the same research outputs are grouped by subject. Click on the subject to drill-down into a list of articles organized by journal, and then by title.

Note: Articles may be assigned to more than one subject area.

Count	Share
518	160.88

Outputs by subject (Share)

Subject	Count	Share
Life Sciences	286	68.23
American Journal of Human Genetics	3	0.11
Cancer Research	1	0.01
Cell	5	1.49
Cell Stem Cell	1	0.01
Current Biology	5	1.97
Developmental Cell	2	0.72
Ecology Letters	2	0.53
Genome Research	1	0.08
Immunity	2	0.06
Journal of Biological Chemistry	9	4.40
Journal of Cell Biology	5	3.60
Journal of Clinical Investigation	5	0.35
Journal of Experimental Medicine	3	0.23
Journal of Neuroscience	8	3.75
Molecular Psychiatry	15	2.24
Nature	19	1.88
Nature Biotechnology	3	1.16
Nature Cell Biology	1	0.01
Nature Communications	76	17.60
Nature Genetics	9	1.18
Nature Immunology	4	0.50
Nature Medicine	6	0.24
Nature Neuroscience	4	0.90
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology	1	0.05
Neuron	5	0.49
PLOS Biology	6	1.99
PLOS Genetics	7	1.76
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	18	5.44
Proceedings of the Royal Society B	14	4.44
Science	11	1.51
Science Advances	13	3.47
Evolution and effects of the social-ecological system over a millennium in China’s Loess Plateau 2020-10-01		0.33
Structural basis of trehalose recycling by the ABC transporter LpqY-SugABC 2020-10-01		0.10
Neurotoxic peptides from the venom of the giant Australian stinging tree 2020-09-01		0.91
A novel system to map protein interactions reveals evolutionarily conserved immune evasion pathways on transmissible cancers 2020-07-01		0.01
Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa 2020-06-01		0.07
Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics 2020-06-01		0.12
All major cholesterol-dependent cytolysins use glycans as cellular receptors 2020-05-01		0.15
Nanoparticle elasticity regulates phagocytosis and cancer cell uptake 2020-04-01		0.57
Emergence of a Neolithic in highland New Guinea by 5000 to 4000 years ago 2020-03-01		0.04
Tracking extracellular vesicle phenotypic changes enables treatment monitoring in melanoma 2020-02-01		0.64
Poly(amino acids) as a potent self-adjuvanting delivery system for peptide-based nanovaccines 2020-01-01		0.49
NS1 DNA vaccination protects against Zika infection through T cell–mediated immunity in immunocompetent mice 2019-12-01		0.01
Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean 2019-11-01		0.04
Science Translational Medicine	3	0.37
The EMBO Journal	2	0.09
The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology	8	2.93
eLife	9	2.66
Chemistry	113	34.95
Physical Sciences	78	28.16
Earth & Environmental Sciences	107	43.72

Highlight of the month

Ecological compensation policies fail to balance losses

Protecting or restoring degraded ecosystems is not enough to offset the biodiversity losses associated with industrial development.

Ecological compensation policies are used around the world in an effort to achieve no net loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, by balancing the destruction resulting from development with the improvement or protection of other areas.

However a modelling study led by researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia found that not one of 18 ecological compensation policies, which were based on existing policies used around the world, met the goal of no net loss of biodiversity, carbon storage and sediment retention.

The success of these policies was limited by the amount of land available for improvement or protection, and the differences in the types of ecosystem losses caused by development and the gains achieved on the land set aside to compensate.

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